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"No one who has read it has failed to love it." - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian. "Szerb belongs with the master novelists of the twentieth century." - Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph. Anxious to please his bourgeois father, Mihaly has joined the family firm in Budapest. Pursued by nostalgia for his bohemian youth, he seeks escape in marriage to Erzsi, not realising that she has chosen him as a means to her own rebellion. On their honeymoon in Italy Mihaly "loses" his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. There all the death-haunted and erotic elements of his past converge, and he, like Erzsi, has finally to choose.
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not the neurodivergent representation i thought it would be (beautifully written thou)
sometimes funny but most of the time just so laughable that i kept side-eyeing was this shit satire bitch it might be but too much of juvenile self-indulged melodrama could only get me so far
The writing was great, but the story full of unbelievable coincidences, racial stereotyping and bourgeois angst.